You are about to start the 8th edition
of your favourite historical activity... twitter in class! This year
it will be all about the American Revolution, a topic that we have never
performanced before.
The Revolutionary
War, otherwise known as the American Revolution, was a battle for independence
fought between the United States (then the Continental Colonies) and Great
Britain that spanned the years of 1775 to 1783. The conflict was the result of
mounting tension between the colonists and the colonial government, which was
an extension of the British crown’s authority. Throughout the war, a number of
individuals played essential roles for their respective parties...
How does it work? You must create a special
twitter account as you were one American character, that can be a famous
or an anonymous one (choose your character from this document).
With this “historical account” you become follower of @auladeadriana.
The application period will start THIS WEDNESDAY (25th November), at 15:00. Just send me an email with your chosen character (even better, send me the list of your three favourite characters) and I will answer you back with the confirmation. Once that you have the confirmation (but not before), you can start making your character back to life :) You will have some time for creating the twitter account; the more “realistic” that you do it (portrait, biographic info, etc.), the better for your final mark.
The debate will start Friday 27th November and finish
Friday 4th, December. You
have to create a minimum of 20 tweets (12 of them base
on real primary sources: texts, photos...) in the name of your chosen
character. Try not to be independent, but “talk” with the others. I will help
you with some clues for the timeline (eg. this "major battles" web), so you will not be lost in the process.
I would also recommend you to use
the hastag #HistoryatVasco in your tweets, to facilitate its
reading.
The previous years, this experiment was a total success and your partners really did good performances, so you will have to work hard for leading them...
This work is individual and
mandatory and will be part of the score at the end of the term. If
you fail to finish it, do it out of date, or just copy&paste from a
webpage, the mark will be a 0 for this work.
Be creative and enjoy it!
